What is the RIAA and why is inportant to copyright?
The U.S. Constitution provides the basis for all copyright law in America in Article I, Section 8, which gives Congress the
power to “secur[e] for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.” Over the centuries since that right was established, the practice of intellectual and artistic property rights have evolved in complicated ways, influenced in particular by business desires to protect and extend revenue-producing texts and media. The RIAA has a mentality that MP3's are a crime such as in this sentence. The RIAA has repeatedly taken the position that ripping MP3s from CDs you own is illegal, and it's using that argument to harm consumers.
For those who still maintain the RIAA does not believe that MP3s are a crime, here are two very clear pieces of evidence:
In the first ever trial of a person accused of sharing copyrighted music files over a peer-to-peer network, a Sony executive described ripping songs as stealing. Then the RIAA's lawyer grilled Thomas on the stand about whether or not she'd gotten permission before making personal copies of her music. (THREAT LEVEL's David Kravets covered the trial gavel-to-gavel.)
Every three years, the Librarian of Congress decides what exceptions will be made to a federal law that makes it illegal to defeat copyright locks. That law is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. In 2006, a number of exemptions were proposed.
The RIAA, among others, opposed these exceptions. In a February 2, 2006 letter (.pdf) to the Copyright office, the group wrote that ripping MP3s from CDs -- also known as device shifting -- was not covered by Fair Use and thus was infringing. They also said that making a back-up copy of a CD was also infringing.
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The submission asserts in its third example, “device and format shifting,” that such activities “are unquestionably fair uses” of lawfully purchased CDs, (C6 at 8); but among those questioning this conclusion is the Register, who noted in 2003 that “proponents have not established that space-shifting or platform-shifting is a noninfringing use.” 2003 Rec. at 139.
The U.S. Constitution provides the basis for all copyright law in America in Article I, Section 8, which gives Congress the
power to “secur[e] for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.” Over the centuries since that right was established, the practice of intellectual and artistic property rights have evolved in complicated ways, influenced in particular by business desires to protect and extend revenue-producing texts and media. The RIAA has a mentality that MP3's are a crime such as in this sentence. The RIAA has repeatedly taken the position that ripping MP3s from CDs you own is illegal, and it's using that argument to harm consumers.
For those who still maintain the RIAA does not believe that MP3s are a crime, here are two very clear pieces of evidence:
- In the first ever trial of a person accused of sharing copyrighted music files over a peer-to-peer network, a Sony executive described ripping songs as stealing. Then the RIAA's lawyer grilled Thomas on the stand about whether or not she'd gotten permission before making personal copies of her music. (THREAT LEVEL's David Kravets covered the trial gavel-to-gavel.)
- Every three years, the Librarian of Congress decides what exceptions will be made to a federal law that makes it illegal to defeat copyright locks. That law is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. In 2006, a number of exemptions were proposed.
The RIAA, among others, opposed these exceptions. In a February 2, 2006 letter (.pdf) to the Copyright office, the group wrote that ripping MP3s from CDs -- also known as device shifting -- was not covered by Fair Use and thus was infringing. They also said that making a back-up copy of a CD was also infringing.Check this out:)
The submission asserts in its third example, “device and format shifting,” that such activities “are unquestionably fair uses” of lawfully purchased CDs, (C6 at 8); but among those questioning this conclusion is the Register, who noted in 2003 that “proponents have not established that space-shifting or platform-shifting is a noninfringing use.” 2003 Rec. at 139.
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